Pocket check and form book



' (No Model.)

B. FANNIN'G.

POCKET CHECK AND FORM BOOK. No. 401,324.

Patented Apr. 9, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE FANNlNG, OF NEVJTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

POCKET CHECK AND FORM BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,324, dated April 9,1889.

$erial No. 295,079. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE FANNING, of the city of Newton, in the countyof Middlesex and'State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inBooks of Printed Forms Specially Adapted to the Requirements of a PocketCheck-Book; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and whichdrawings form a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention relates to the construction of blocks offorms, their arrangement and combination with the covers, andaccounekeeping features of the book, all as hereinafter more fully setforth.

With reference to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of theimproved book set up on edge andpart-ly open with a view best to exhibitthe several features of construction and the relation of parts. Fig. 2is a diagram or edgewise View or section, designed also to the moreclearly define the arrangements and construction. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of The face of check-forms is indicated by the letter0.

The face of the account-forms is indicated by the letter a. 7

Like letters refer to like or corres mnding parts in all the figures.

The book shown consists of the covers, the ten blocks of bank-checkprinted blanks, and account-forms, the letters and figures on the formsbeing intended to indicate printing, except that the first account-blankat the left in Fig. 1 is partly filled up in illustration of use. 7

It will be observed that in Fig. 1 the book is so displayed as to exposeto view partly ac-- count-blanks at the left and cheek-blanks at theright. This comes from the position of the book. The blocks of checkforms or blanks are uniform. The forms face uniformly in one directionand in like position relatively to the user. So with the account-forms,they all face uniformly in one direction and opposite to thecheck-forms. (See Fig. 3.)

The blocks of check-forms are made of a single sheet of paper foldedzigzag, back and 'i. 6., in one uniform direction and in uprightpage-like order.

The book-covers may be in any convenient form and desirable style.

The blocks are usually to be attached Within the book-covers by one ofthe two free edges, either at the end orside, as desired. Adjacent andat the left of each block of check-forms is also attached, Within thecovers, a suitable full leaf corresponding in size to the checks andprinted in blank, with suitable spaces for account of deposits,balances, and checks to the number corresponding to the number ofcheck-forms in a block.

It is desirable that the sheet should be perforated, creased, orotherwise prepared at the folds, so that the check may be easily removedafter filling out.

There are many different devices in the construction of this class ofbooks and in the arrangement of their parts; but it is believed that theconstruction herein described affords the most advantages of any yetproduced. These are apparent and need not all be mentioned. Not theleast, however, is the perfect form left for filing when the checks areall used, theperfectly convenient presentation of the check ready paddedfor filling, and the convenient arrangement of the account-form inrelation to it.

1. In a checkbook, a sheet of check blanks or forms folded alternatelyback and forth, the printed blank forms of checks all facing one Waywhen folded, but alternately in opposite directions when the sheet isspread out, substantially as described.

2. A sheet of printed forms folded back and forth similarly to the foldsof a paper fan and printed on each side of the sheet on the alter natefolds, a vacant fold of one side occupying the back of a printed form onthe other, and attached within the covers of a book by the edge of oneof the outer folds, all the printed forms on the sheet facing when sofolded and attached in one uniform direction, substantially asdescribed.

3. The combination of a block of printed forms in blank, constructed ofa sheet folded back and forth, having the printed-form faces all in onedirection when folded, and printed account-blanks having anuniber ofspaces or lines suited to the number of forms in the blocks and boundwithin covers in book form, substantially as described.

4. The combination of book-covers, printed blank forms of accountattached therein, a sheet of bank-check or other similar printed formsin blank folded back and forth, each alternate fold bearing upon theback of the alternate vacant space of the other side a check-f0rmprinted in blank, the forms all facing when so folded and attached in auniform direction the account-forms, substantially as described.

EUGENE FANNING.

